December, 2004

Today we relaunch the Internet Explorer Developer Center on MSDN. You can find this at the relatively easy to remember URL http://msdn.microsoft.com/ie and is a portal for developers using Internet Explorer technologies. On the developer center we highlight technologies and events and link to reference material, articles and other essential information. The Developer Center is useful for both web developers and Windows developers who are building their solution on the Internet Explorer platform....

My name is Patrick Mann and I’m a security tester on the IE team. A big part of my job is to research potential IE security vulnerabilities reported to Microsoft by 3 rd parties: security vendors, site developers, or simply observant users. These folks do the browsing public a great service by working with us to eliminate vulnerabilities before they can be exploited. However, I’ve also noticed that there are some misconceptions about IE security that lead people to worry about perceived security...

The information published in this post is now out-of-date. —IEBlog Editor, 20 August 2012 I want to comment on a couple of things before we all disappear for the holidays. As you may have noticed, we have turned on comment moderation due to the copious amounts of blog spam we have gotten lately. This means there will be some delay for us to review the comments and then post the ones that are not spam. I don’t really like doing the comment filtering (it’s more work for us), but given the spam...

The information published in this post is now out-of-date. —IEBlog Editor, 20 August 2012 I didn’t expect to be posting before next year, but given the situation in southern Asian and eastern Africa, I thought it important to post something to help those affected by the earthquake and the tsunami. You can find a good list of organizations to which you can make a donation on Microsoft’s Helping Victims of the South Asian Earthquake and Tsunami web page. There are plenty of other sites with information...

Today we released a security update for IE, MS04-040. This fixes a heap-based buffer overflow that allows remote execution (see CAN-2004-1050 for more details on the specifics of the issue). Full details on the security update can be found in the security bulletin . If you are running IE6 SP1 or IE 6 I strongly suggest you go to Windows Update to get this security release. It’s nice to see the results of all the hard work we put into making XPSP2 and Windows Server 2003 more secure, since users running...